U.S. Capitol riot

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he was appointing a former federal prosector as special counsel into the Justice Department’s investigations into former President Donald Trump.

Cassidy Hutchinson, former senior aide to chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified Tuesday that former President Donald Trump had thrown a plate at a White House wall after former Attorney General Bill Barr spoke out against claims of election fraud. “There was ketchup dripping down the wall and there was a shattered porcelain plate on the floor.”

One of the dozens of police officers injured during the U.S. Capitol riot has testified that he didn’t punch or instigate a fight with a man in the mob

The request followed news that the justice’s wife, Virginia Thomas, urged then-President Trump’s top aide Mark Meadows to try to overturn Biden’s election win.

A federal judge said Donald Trump likely broke the law by “corruptly” attempting to obstruct the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College win.

A former Virginia police officer has pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol with another former officer who is scheduled to be tried next month on charges related to the riot

The committee, which is investigating the invasion of the Capitol by a mob of Trump’s supporters, had invited Ivanka Trump to sit for a voluntary interview.

President Joe Biden has rejected former President Donald Trump’s privilege claims over White House visitor logs from the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

It is unknown whether the gap in the records is the result of Trump’s habit of using his personal cell phone as president, NBC reported.

The Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe committee wants to question Trump aide Peter Navarro about efforts to delay certification of President Joe Biden’s election win.

Cheney and Kinzinger are the only Republicans on the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by former President Donald Trump’s supporters.

The Republican National Committee has censured two GOP lawmakers for participating on the committee investigating the violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol

The top staff investigator for the House Jan. 6 panel was fired from his position at the University of Virginia by the state’s new GOP attorney general.

Trump ended the call as Inskeep started to ask a question about the deadly invasion of the Capitol last year by a mob of Trump’s supporters.

A House panel investigating the Capitol riot poured cold water on a conspiracy suggesting the FBI was involved in inciting the Jan. 6 invasion.

The new domestic terror unit was unveiled days after the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, when former President Donald Trump’s supporters invaded the Capitol.

The lawsuits accusing Trump of fomenting the Capitol riot were filed by two U.S. Capitol police officers and numerous House Democrats.

Some Republican lawmakers are shifting blame about the Capitol riot. Here’s what they said one year ago when a mob stormed the building in Washington, D.C.

On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, politicians from across Illinois and around Chicago shared messages and reflected on the attack one year later.

Biden in a fiery speech condemned the “web of lies” spread by former President Donald Trump, blaming him directly for fomenting the attack.